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A History of the County of Shropshire
… is bounded partly by Long Lane, the river Tern, and the road from Allscott to Watling Street at Norton. The western … - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley Hill by 975, and southwards around Cluddley, … in 1839. 15 Houses were built on the west side of Bratton Road, half way from Bratton Farm to Admaston, before 1930 and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… town is situated near the foot of the chalk hills, on the road from Maidstone to London, and consists principally of … others have placed at Wroxeter. Wrottesley lies on the road from Wolverhampton to Shiffnall, and is the seat and … Thames below Marlow. It has one principal street, on the road from London to Oxford, from which some smaller streets …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… boundary was that part of the ancient Wellington-Newport road known by 1288 as Trench Way (later Trench Road), 9 a name suggesting that the wood was cleared back … formations occur. Some sand and gravel lies along Trench Road. 14 There was little settlement in the township in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… After the First World War house building south of Trench Road further reduced those totals, and building by the … furnaces on the west side of what was later known as Moss Road. In 1802 he took them into the newly formed Lilleshall … by the 1850s. In 1882 a brickworks stood between Lincoln Road and Cockshutt Piece and there was also a kiln at the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Junior School, with 320 places, was erected in Church Road, Trench. 25 Numbers rose and the school was extended in … 57 Wrockwardine Wood County Infant School, Church Road, opened in 1953 with 200 places. 58 It was extended in … 200 pupils by 1981. 60 Trench Boys' Modern School, Gibbons Road, opened in 1955 with 360 places. 61 It had 553 pupils in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… closed. 52 In 1824 St. John's Wesleyan chapel, Trench Road, opened. Society membership grew from 8 in 1821 to 71 in … been replaced by a new chapel on the opposite side of the road. 69 Bethesda chapel, Trench, on the corner of Trench and … averaged 20 in 1982. 71 In 1870 a brick mission in Lincoln Road opened, reputedly for poor people reluctant to attend …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… making. 18 A brick kiln east of the Wrockwardine-Admaston road in 1827 19 had closed by 1838. Field names suggest the …